From 435b7a22fb8d64d1c2c0d4ddca0b387f25984c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Debertol <michael.debertol@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 22:42:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] uucore/perms: add more information to an error message

This reverts part of https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2628,
because (even though it got the test passing) it was the wrong bug fix.
---
 src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs
index a4a01c499..b071cedaa 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/perms.rs
@@ -358,7 +358,12 @@ impl ChownExecutor {
             Err(e) => {
                 match self.verbosity.level {
                     VerbosityLevel::Silent => (),
-                    _ => show_error!("cannot access '{}': {}", path.display(), strip_errno(&e)),
+                    _ => show_error!(
+                        "cannot {} '{}': {}",
+                        if follow { "dereference" } else { "access" },
+                        path.display(),
+                        strip_errno(&e)
+                    ),
                 }
                 None
             }